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Thoughts on Bikeway Planning

Regular readers of this site will know that I can be a bit of a crank about certain types of bicycle facilities:

Signage alone doesn’t make a route ‘bicycle-friendly.’

Paint jobs sometimes just indicate what the knowledgeable already know.
Bike lanes as backfill can create their own hazards.

Generally speaking, every type of bicycle facility has its own drawbacks. Frequently, [...]

February 2nd, 2011 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle bridges, bicycle facilities, bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, bike lanes, bike trails, cedar lake trail, children on bikes, common sense, complete streets, cycling in the media, engineering, europe, evaluation, minneapolis, minnesota, road construction, roadway design, roadway use, share the road, st. paul, transportation options, urban planning | Comments are closed

Winter Cycling & Slow News Days

There has been the expected annual spate of winter cycling stories on multiple local news channels and sites – from the Strib and PiPress to features on local news and radio programs.

There is a common theme to these stories: Hey, look at the freaks! Sure, many of the stories have positive elements, such as the riders [...]

January 24th, 2011 | Category: bicycle commuting, bicyclists, cycling in the media, cycling on TV, encouragement, minneapolis, minnesota, transportation options, winter cycling | Comments are closed

Bike Lanes As Cyclist Hazards

Yesterday, a cyclist was killed while in the bike lane at 1st Avenue North and 5th Street in Minneapolis. While details remain sparse, the cyclist was in a bike lane painted to the right of the road, and was struck in a classic right-hook as the vehicle in the ‘car lane’ to the left of the [...]

October 27th, 2010 | Category: bicycle commuting, bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, bike lanes, crime, cycling in the media, engineering, minneapolis, minnesota, riding position, roadway design, roadway use, share the road, traffic accidents, traffic calming, vehicular cycling | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Fearmongering in Duluth

There’s nothing quite like headline writing expressly designed to freak people out, while not necessarily matching article content.

Duluth’s Northland News Center, which is a site for Duluth’s CBS, NBC, CW and ‘MyNetwork’ affiliate television outlets, provokes today’s big headsmack with their article “BICYCLE RIDING DEATHS UP IN MN.”

While the article does include some fatality statistics [...]

April 14th, 2010 | Category: bicycle safety, bicyclists, common sense, cycling in the media, duluth, jerks, minnesota, roadway use, share the road, vehicular cycling | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
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